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Dealer Tire enters European car dealership channel

As part of its international expansion, Dealer Tire has now arrived in Germany and thus in Europe. The US company has been supplying car dealerships with exclusively OEM-marked consumer tyres for replacement needs in its home market for around a quarter of a century and launched this business model, which has been described as successful, in China seven years ago. Europe is the company’s next targe. Dealer Tire Europe, a GmbH founded in 2022, started business in Germany at the beginning of the year from a temporary location, but has now officially moved into a logistics property in Gernsheim, south of Frankfurt, which will soon cover 25,000 square metres. Tyres & Accessories’ German sister publication, Neue Reifenzeitung (NRZ) found out how Dealer Tire wants to make a difference at the warehouse inauguration.

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27th September 2024/by Arno

5 Series & E-Class – tyre twins?

Vehicle manufacturers typically demand customised tyres for their cars. To denote this exclusive tailoring, tyres that are approved or factory fitted as original equipment display a special marking on the sidewall. The best-known of these OE tyre designations include those for Porsche (N0, N1, …), BMW (*) and Mercedes (MO), although other brands, from Alfa Romeo to Volvo, also have their own individual sidewall marking. We recently became aware of something new that flies – at least in part – in the face of this concept of original equipment tyres specially tailored to a specific vehicle model.

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22nd December 2023/1 Comment/by Stephen

Britishvolt, UK car manufacturing and OE tyres

Company News, Editorial/Comment, UK News

In May-2020, we needed a lift. We’d all been through the first and arguably harshest lockdown and Prime Minister Boris Johnson modified the COVID-19 message from “stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives” to “stay alert, control the virus, save lives”. In other words, not knowing that further lockdowns would follow, the PM was working towards easing restrictions and reopening the economy. Within the automotive sector many tyre specialists, garages and fast-fits had closed along with OEM factories and car dealerships. One result of the latter was that car production figures fell to post-war lows. What better time to back a British electric vehicle battery manufacturing gigafactory? Several projects came to the fore. There was even talk of Elon Musk considering a Tesla gigafactory in the UK. But it was BritishVolt that Boris Johnson put his name to.

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